“The dried-up vagina is a tool of the state, and population control.”
Marriage: Not an effective form of birth control.
When we first met Spearhead commenter Rmaxd, he was raving about how our technological society had rendered women obsolete. He’s back, this time taking on, well, women again, and welfare, and declining birth rates, and, well, it’s all a little bit hard to follow.
Let’s start with Rmaxd’s basic premises:
Women are serially monogamous or hypergamous & are infertile for the majority of their lives
While men are polygamous, & FERTILE for the majority of their lives
Marriage has always been used as the earliest form of birth contraception, limit the amount of children a fertile male can have, by forced mating with a single infertile woman for the rest of his life.
We are off to a bad start here. Is there anything in all that that’s correct? Among other things: marriage is most decidedly not a particularly effective form of birth control. (The show Eight is Enough was based on a real family, and I suspect we’ve all met people with enough siblings to fill a bus.) But let’s continue; Rmaxd is on a roll:
As the government can no longer force this sort of mating on infertile womens, especially in the lower moronic, under educated peasantry states,
As women want alphas,
Obviously sluts & whores, are simply mimicing infertile women, as only infertile dried up vaginas, can afford to sleep around with hundreds of men
This is why we have sluts & promiscuity, marketted to young girls today, imitate infertile women, imitate their habits, destroy your fertility, destroy your youth
A childhood of std’s & yeast infections
Yeah, I’m not even going to try to parse all that.
In any case, as Rmaxd argues, these “infertile” ladies somehow still manage to pop out a few kids when they’re young, and the evil welfare state rewards them for it:
It’s essentially birth control by sponsoring infertile women, most women have a couple of kids, basically enough to live off the welfare & free housing
As we all know, single mothers live lives of untold luxury and indolence.
What we have here is essentially welfare for infertile women, as they’re no longer able to siphon cash from enslaving men into walking wallets & their magical vagina’s a pit of std’s & warts
In the past, you see, women could enslave men by marrying them. Now they can’t get dudes to stick around, so instead they enslave men by not marrying them, raising their kids on their own with the help of welfare money. It’s all very devious.
Rmaxd would prefer that the welfare money go to the fathers:
If we had welfare for men who had kids, with different women, we would have a healthy birth rate, instead of the declining birth rate we have now … this is all about rewarding & protecting a womans sexuality over a mans sexuality
It all leads to what Rmaxd calls:
The new another dark age of female fanatical male hate,
sponsored & policed by the church of radical feminist mangina, & government
The dried up vagina, as a tool of the state & population control
This barely coherent spew of woman-hatred – and it’s even less comprehensible without my edits and annotations – still managed to draw a few upvotes from the regulars, proving that internet misogynists will upvote pretty much anything so long as it contains the requisite level of anti-woman vitriol.
In case you’re feeling especially bored this lazy Sunday, the whole Spearhead thread is a trainwreck of misogyny and racism – including some fairly obnoxious discussions of black “Welfare Queens” and Mexican immigrants from a fellow called Keyster. Does that (fake) name sound familiar? You may know him as a fairly regular contributor to A Voice for Men and the producer of the AVfM internet radio show.
Posted on January 22, 2012, in $MONEY$, a voice for men, antifeminism, crackpottery, evil women, manginas, marriage strike, men who should not ever be with women ever, misogyny, MRA, oppressed men, oppressed white men, racism, reactionary bullshit, sluts, the spearhead. Bookmark the permalink. 447 Comments.
“You may know him as a fairly regular contributor to A Voice for Men and the producer of the AVfM internet radio show.”
Boy, that Elam really knows how to pick em, huh.
Wait, “Welfare Queens” are all infertile women that are pretending to be fertile? By having children? That word, I don’t think it means what he thinks it means!
If an individual man had sex with more women maybe he would have more kids than usual. But if all the men have sex with lots of women you’re going to have the same number of total kids, because women aren’t going to get more fertile.
And in practice this would lead to fewer total kids, because women are likely to use birth control if they know the guy they’re having sex with isn’t going to stick around.
Ryu: “Black men are notorius for not being around at all, their contribution to their kids lives is nothing. “Swipe your EBT” and other tales suggest that it’s Uncle Sugar who is the “baby daddy.” In a way, the black community is the ideal of the PUAs and MRM. No marraige and as much sex as you like. To hell with the kids. ”
55 upvotes, only 13 downvotes. And as our good buddy Antz has taught us, the number of upvotes corresponds directly to the amount of truth in a given post.
@Crumb
meanwhile Elam has declared feminism is like racism and feminism will go the ways of racism. Seems like racism is still alive and kicking in the MRM though.
and don’t these idiots know welfare is available to men too?
What did commas ever do to that dude to deserve such torture!
*yawns)
Yeah, yeah, the myth of mighty male sperm being all might all a man’s life unto his withering dick is now being disproved because, DOH, male aging does affect fertility:
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1ARAB_enUS452US452&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=male+sperm+and+fertility+issues+aging
Plus, causes of infertility are complicated, especially the the sexist and racist work in eugenics and science a century or two ago, but as usual the MRAs go for the simplest answer: WIMMIN!
Also, I r confused: I thought ALL the vaginas were dripping with slime and toxic poisons and you know STDS?
The most confusing part is the idea that birth rate is too low. There are seven billion people and the number is rising. Why does he think that the birth rate is too low? Who looks around at food shortages and rising commodity prices and thinks, “you know what would help, more people”?
Fatman – I can give you a 99.8% guarantee he feels the white birth rate is too low.
His solution is still nonsense, though. It’s like if you fill ten water jugs from ten taps. Changing that to filling ten water jugs from one tap doesn’t give you more total water. And saying “all ten taps can fill all ten jugs!” is just going to make a mess and still end up with the same amount of total water.
And it gets even worse when the “water jugs” are human beings who are probably not going to want to get pregnant and bear the kid if they know the dad is planning to skip town and never send child support.
These dudes still don’t understand that White people use welfare too, let alone that they constitute a large percentage of people on welfare
The dog whistle on low birth rate rants is basically ‘not enough white babies’. Welfare Queens often means ‘too many not-white babies’. The sneers at welfare are because the governments they do not like are giving money to the WRONG PEOPLE.
Infertile, as regards women, means not presently knocked up. Women being infertile most of their lives means ‘You can’t tell when you can knock them up, why don’t they have, like, red bottoms or something’. Dried up vaginas are vaginas what do not tingle for the right people, and we all know who that would be, right?
Forcing male infertility through marriage means ‘waaaah, I can’t knock up women all day because they always be wantin’ something from me’.
Alternate interpretation!
Maybe for this looser, “infertile” really means not currently pregnant? As in, pregnant women are fertile, and any woman who isn’t currently pregnant is infertile. And, welfare should be given only to fertile women. Therefore, any woman on welfare who has 2 kids, but isn’t currently making more babies, has tricked the system into giving her welfare money that’s really meant for the Duggars.
Of course, logically, if “infertile” means not currently using your reproductive organs in a reproductive manner… then wouldn’t men only be considered fertile during the moment of ejaculation in PIV sex? At no other time are they using their reproductive organs in a reproductive manner, so shouldn’t Rmaxd call them infertile?
To be fair, every possible interpretation of his “essay” leads to precisely the same conclusion: Rmaxd is profoundly stupid.
@Need to know: ninja’d!
I have a strong suspicion that on top of his difficulty with basic logic, Rmaxd thinks women drop to zero fertility at age twenty-nine.
@Shadow
very true -_-
anecdotal evidence may not count, but the people I know who are or who have been on welfare are white. Its very rude to look down on those who use welfare. People who do that are just assholes who can’t fathom a life different than their own.
I’m fertile (as far as I know) but my vagina sure dries up everytime I read crap from the manosphere :P
@Quackers: “and don’t these idiots know welfare is available to men too?”
…or that plenty of welfare recipients are white. Oh but that would involve actual thinking rather than relying on lazy stereotypes.
I’m white, married, and was on welfare for a time. I never understood why guys like this think welfare is some kind of gravy train. Maybe it’s just the state I live in, but the welfare I got was small and finite. Small, meaning that it wasn’t a lot of money. And finite, meaning that it ended! Plus, you have to DO stuff for your welfare. Lots of documents. You have to attend classes and give them job search logs. You have to keep your appointments and do everything they tell you down to the letter, or you get shut off. In my state, there is a 5 year LIFETIME limit on benefits. And it’s cumulative. It might sound like a lot to some, but it certainly isn’t enough to ensure “welfare queens” having welfare that spans generations.
This guy is sort of right about women and fertility. Most healthy men who haven’t had vasectomies can produce viable sperm 24/7 while women only ovulate once a month so most of the time we aren’t fertile in the sense of being at the right point in the cycle to make conception likely (plus the whole menopause thing). However that biological fact certainly doesn’t lead to any of the conclusions he’s leapt to.
Funny thing about the whole “welfare” hullaboo: the vast majority of government money goes to rich white men, anyway.
It’s sort of silly to be worrying about some poor mother getting $200 a month for Rice Krispies when the government has no problem signing gazillion-dollar checks to the upper-upper-upper class.
If welfare did go to the fathers instead, then they would complain about how the feminiocracy is FORCING them to have children with Ameriskanks by denying them benefits if they don’t.
It’s sort of silly to be worrying about some poor mother getting $200 a month for Rice Krispies when the government has no problem signing gazillion-dollar checks to the upper-upper-upper class.
But…but…but she might have the nerve to enjoy her Rice Krispies! She might be less than totally miserable if we let her not-starve, and start thinking she’s a person or something despite being poor and female and possibly non-white, and we can’t be having that sort of uppity attitude from those people!
(I wish this didn’t seem to be precisely what the anti-welfare attitude boils down to in a lot of cases…)
These guys think that the normal way to have kids is not to repeatedly have sex with a woman to get her pregnant and then help her raise the kid – for them only beta males do that. They think the normal way to have kids is to have sex a few times with each one of several women and get them pregnant and after that, runaway from them – for them it’s what alpha males do. And it’s why they bitch against women on welfare, they believe that all these pregnant women will end up on welfare. They believes that men can get hundreds of women pregnant and therefore must spread their seeds by impregnating the maximum number of women.
And they believe that women are mainly attracted to men because of their sperm and since men produce sperm during most of their life, they believe that 20 years old fertile women should be attracted to 60 years old men.
Right on, Holly. If only they took a look at corporate welfare, their fricking eyes would start bleeding and their heads would explode. Or maybe not. They would find a way to blame that on women too.
If they got a splinter, they would blame it on women. Because hypergamy causes trees to grow, or some such shit.
My Swiss ancestors who settled to farm in Wisconsin in the mid-1800’s would beg to differ about the whole “marriage=birth control” thing. The first generation to immigrate to America spawned 12 children, all but one of whom lived into old age. In fact, the wife was pregnant with her last child at the same time her eldest daughter was pregnant with her first. She was solidly pregnant for 25 years, from the age of 20 to the age of 45. Yeah, barren.
@no more mr nice guy
so basically they’re pissed of that women dare try to care for their bastard children? yeah that makes tons on sense *eyeroll*
and gee, I wonder which guy’s sperm is less likely to have issues…the 20 year old, or the 60 year olds? it’s true that women deal with more severe infertility issues at higher levels than men, but it’s not something that doesn’t effect men either, as Ithiliana posted.
“sponsored & policed by the church of radical feminist mangina”
Is he implying that churches actively support women’s rights or that feminism is basically a church cult?
Because the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops protesting the recent regulation that employers need to cover birth control pills on their health insurance plans isn’t supporting a feminazi state. Although, a lot of MRAs think traditionalist commenting on how to treat ladies (opening doors/lifeboats) is actually related to feminist mind control, whore bears or something.
I suppose women want to ride the Bishops’ Basic Coverage Carousel too.
UNCHECKED “SHRIV’AGINA” TEMERITY!
They don’t care about the quality of sperm. They really believe that 20 years old women will want 60 years old men to have babies with them – Roissy/Heartiste constantly say it and I have seen many MRAs repeat it.
well that’s just plain ol’ fashion denial lol
no pun intended haha
Remember though, it’s the MRM that is for the poor and non-white (men).
Because IT otally believe someone who talks like this has fewer issues with the poor and non-white segments of the population than the rest of society.
MRA’s don’t want single mothers to get any government assistance, and they also don’t want them to receive child support from fathers. They should just admit that they want single mothers and their children to starve.
Single fathers are eligible for the same help single mothers can get. The sad thing is there isn’t nearly enough help for any single parents, but the money available should go to those who are are actually raising the children. If Remaxd thinks that raising a child is an easy way to get rich, why doesn’t he adopt some children and become a single dad?
Because that would leave him less time to vent about hating women.
I wonder if he had a single mom.
Men who are the primary caretakers for their children, to multiple women or one, are eligible to get welfare for those children, as eligible as a woman who does the same (minus the fact that cis non-intersexed men may not be eligible for pregnancy and birth coverage, as they cannot be pregnant or give birth). Whoever has primary physical custody is generally the one who receives benefits on the child’s behalf.
There’s also an issue of “one drop rule” being done in birth rates. A white parent and a black parent have a child, that child is almost certainly not going to be counted as a white birth, though they very well may be counted as a black one.
If birth rate was the key to prosperity then Niger and Uganda would rule the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_birth_rate
Five-year lifetime limit? That is cold. And will be much, much colder in a year, when our recession hits its five-year anniversary.
*flails* I don’t understand why infertile women automatically have dried up vaginas. Internal lubrication is a completely separate mechanism from fertility. And if she is all dry you could get some lube or invest more time in foreplay. Also, I can afford to whore around even though I’m young and moist because of birth control! Yay! Modern day science! =D
You know, it strikes me that complaining about dried up vaginas is really pretty sinister. I mean, a vagina is usually dry because of a lack of arousal, so all of these MRAs are really complaining that she’s not aroused and ready for his dick AT ALL TIMES!
I met someone who received welfare once.
Most MRA’S no longer have ANY actual critique of the State, even a neo-conservative or right-libertarian one.
The State is simply a term for WOMEN, AND THE THING THAT DOES EVERYTHING FOR THEM AND GIVES THEM STUFF. (AND THROWS US IN JAIL CAUSE WE DON’T WANNA DO THAT)
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Once you understand this, be you a liberal, marxist, anarchist, libertarian, hey, even a sane conservative, the whole thing becomes a bit easier. Because whether you’re trying to argue the state is bad or good, you’re not speaking their language, which is WOMEN WANT BIG GOVERMENT GIVEY THING HURTY ME I NO LIKE RARRGH.
The five-year lifetime limit was a nationwide part of the mid-90s welfare “reform”. Some states have additional limits, like you can only get benefits for two years at a time. Add that to the quite low levels of assistance provided, and it becomes a good way to distinguish the idiot ideologues from the people arguing in good faith: if someone thinks people are living large on welfare, or having more kids just so they can get more money, you can pretty safely discard anything they have to say.
I’m proud to say that the First Church of Radical Feminist Mangina & Government recently opened up here in Dallas. It’s just down the road from the Buddhist temple and the Church of Gynocratic Mangina Mary Worshippers.
It’s also important to remember that critiques of welfare recipients as “lazy” and many critiques of it as “fostering dependence” tie into the very strong, yet ultimately warped idea that we SHOULD be slaving away – based on an assumption of wage labor, and the welfare recipients being unwilling (or unable, if you’re compassionate) to find it.
The ruling classes have always promoted the idea of constant hard work for the working classes, while simultaneously taking away the lands, commons, businesses, and mutual welfare the working classes created to lighten their own burdens. The idea that if you don’t have “enough,” you should be bloodying your hands for the bosses until you can scrape by is hardly an ethic of honest labor that enriches the laborer.
Until we all have the option of saying fuck you, and finding communities and economies where we can sustain ourselves and our families without working for our betters, any work OR welfare is at their mercy, which is suck all around. – If our labor isn’t ours to enrich ourselves with, and we only have the option of getting indirect benefit from “employer” or what little we can get a corporate-State to give us to soften the blow, the ethic of hard work becomes a cruel abomination.
/ end nutty left libertarian rant (my sarcastic begin nutty libertarian rant end rant tags disappeared even though I broke up the fake html! phooey )
Our ol’ pal Antz is on that Spearhead thread, telling the MRAs to cool it with the racism, as black and Hispanic men have gotten an even rougher deal from feminism.
Gawd bless ‘im.
Offtopic, slightly, why do so many MRAs give themselves names related to asses and defecation?
Keyster… Scatmaster… There are more.
Keyster… Scatmaster… There are more.
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I actually was thinking about the low-rent-armchair-Freudian implications of that myself.
It might HAVE something to do with harsh toilet training or enthusiastic spanking by caregivers (and, of course, a combination of both) leading to their paranoid authoritarian, magical-thinking prone personalites, and thus ass-fixations.
Or it might be that they just name themselves by looking at the thing in closest proximity to their head…
Here’s the Titanic again! When is that ship finally going to sink? Also apparently all women just long to commit infanticide and be r— I mean, voluntarily mate with invading alphas. And a bunch of lifeboats had no survivors because there were no men to row for them. Wut.
http://www.the-spearhead.com/2012/01/20/male-employment-and-fertility-rates/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheSpearhead+%28The+Spearhead%29#comment-127815
For bonus points, scroll up two comments to see Rocco slut shame sexually active 13 year-olds on the one hand and bemoan the inability of men to have sex with those underage sluts without punishment.
Definitely not a hate movement.
The five year lifetime limit is for cash assistance. Foodstamps, HUD, medicaid, etc. generally aren’t subject to it.
Zhinxy: Call me a dirty socialist, but I don’t believe in the sanctifying value of work or what the fuck ever. I mean, if someone wants to work sixty hour weeks, there’s nothing wrong with that, but if you want to live a more balanced life, with family and children and friends and hobbies and knitting scarves and reading for fun and long summer days dangling your feet in the pool and fucking around on the Internet, you shouldn’t be compelled to work a sixty-hour week in order to have food and shelter and utilities. We only have seventy-something years, and there is no call to spend the best part of most of them doing mind-numbing and soul-destroying labor.
…The implementation of this plan is a bit more difficult, of course.
Keyster… Scatmaster… There are more.
Buttman…
Zhinxy: Call me a dirty socialist, but I don’t believe in the sanctifying value of work or what the fuck ever.
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I mean, if someone wants to work sixty hour weeks, there’s nothing wrong with that, but if you want to live a more balanced life, with family and children and friends and hobbies and knitting scarves and reading for fun and long summer days dangling your feet in the pool and fucking around on the Internet, you shouldn’t be compelled to work a sixty-hour week in order to have food and shelter and utilities.
-That’s exactly what I was saying XD Unless you got that, in which case, sorry, I agree. XD
What I mean is that work can enrich you, and if you want that, it should – but the whole idea that the working class shouldn’t have leisure time, unless it works itself to the bones for it’s betters is a fucked up, perverse lie. What I don’t want is a socialism that merely “redistributes” without attacking the priveleges and dispossession inherent in this. People need to have the options of organizing themselves in different ways, or even a very solid welfare state is precarious, even if greatly preferable to what we have now. See also most mutualist anarchist literature, etc. XD
BREAD AND ROSES!
Oh, man. Guys, on a totally unrelated note, did you know that David’s great grandfather looks like a total fucking badass?
IT’S TRUE
http://www.futrelle.com/
David, I am officially jealous of you having cool ancestors. Mine, as far as we can tell, were just minor politicians/never made anything more creative than cabinets.
Hey now, Molly! Cabinets are really important.
As for how to implement it, the best answer, I would say, is to form co-operatives, credit unions, homesteading groups, trade networks, labor shops, and mutual aid organizations, but again, anarchist, that’s how we roll with the mutual aid this mutual aid that. And above all to unionize. REALLY unionize, in a way that makes them quake.
Right. Eh… Hmm… Well… Hmm… Em, yeah… I got nothing. This guy is clearly an idiot.
Sarah: They are, but you can’t impress people at parties by telling stories about ‘em. ;)
MollyRen – I would totally chill by the punch and listen to the tales of your ancestors and cabinets.
Zhinxy: Yep, I was agreeing and adding my own thoughts. :) I definitely agree about the importance of creating alternatives to regular capitalism– I don’t think that corporations necessarily need to disappear, but they’d be far weaker if there was a coop down the street and a kibbutz across the way, for those who felt the desire to work that way. And a stronger social safety net so that if the only jobs available are ones that disgust you morally or destroy your quality of life/health/whatever, you don’t have to take them.
I do think most people want to work, in the sense of wanting to Do Something that Contributes To Society. They just want, you know, meaningful, interesting, fulfilling, socially valued work that doesn’t eat up their entire lives. And, you know, a meaningful, interesting, fulfilling, socially valued job that doesn’t eat up their entire lives should be the norm, not the exception.
Ozy – Eek, sorry, meant to link to
http://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Political-Economy-of-Waste.pdf
which is a very good overview of the problem and potential solutions as seen from a mutualist, broadly libertarian socialist perspective –
“Historically, given land of normal fertility, a work-week averaging twenty hours over the course of
a year was sufficient to support a family of subsistence producers on those rare occasions when they
were not overburdened with taxes and rents. Naturally, it has been a central aim of privileged classes
throughout history to prevent this state of affairs from occurring.
The Times of November 1857 contains an utterly delightful cry of outrage on the part of a West-Indian
plantation owner. This advocate analyses with great moral indignation—as a plea for the re-introduction of
Negro slavery—how the Quashees (the free blacks of Jamaica) content themselves with producing only
what is strictly necessary for their own consumption, and, alongside this ‘use value’, regard loafing
(indulgence and idleness) as the real luxury good; how they do not care a damn for the sugar and the fixed
capital invested in the plantations, but rather observe the planters’ impending bankruptcy with an ironic grin
of malicious pleasure, and even exploit their acquired Christianity as an embellishment for this mood of
malicious glee and indolence. They have ceased to be slaves, but not in order to become wage labourers, but,
instead, self-sustaining peasants working for their own consumption.”
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To prevent such outrages, the propertied and employing classes have resorted to all sorts of artificial
property rights and artificial scarcities to control producers’ access to land and capital, so that in return
for access to the means of production and subsistence they would be compelled to work to support
someone else in addition to themselves
…
Also, read Marx’s Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land, chapter 27 in Capital, if you haven’t yet. ;)
Ozy: but then how would cheap clothes and electronics get made? *lolsob*
I do think most people want to work, in the sense of wanting to Do Something that Contributes To Society. They just want, you know, meaningful, interesting, fulfilling, socially valued work that doesn’t eat up their entire lives. And, you know, a meaningful, interesting, fulfilling, socially valued job that doesn’t eat up their entire lives should be the norm, not the exception.
YES YES YES YES YES, and the whole sick notion that we DON’T, when all we don’t wanna do is toil at shit jobs we don’t see the benefit of, is one of the best lies we get fed.
As for the social safety net, this is one of the things where you get into unnecessary arguments with people unless you’re very careful – I want one. I want one so thick it’s not even a fucking net, it’s a tarp, a waterproof tarp, and under the tarp, then maybe you have another tarp. I just don’t think the current nation-state system can give us a good one.
Ozy: but then how would cheap clothes and electronics get made? *lolsob*
Molly – REPLICATORS!!!
…Okay, that’s kinda what I actually believe. XD
An ancestor of mine was involved in the Salem witch trials. On the accusing side. So… yeah. There’s that.
Molly: I personally go with the ROBOTS! solution. Because, honestly, is there anything in the average factory that couldn’t be done (with perhaps a few more decades of technological development) by robots and some repairpeople for when the robots break?
Zhinxy: Yeah, that whole idea that we really want to just laze around all day and relax… I dunno about you guys, but I want to laze around all day for about four hours tops*, and after that I start getting tetchy and craving something to do.
*Except for when I’m depressed, but that’s a different issue, I think.
“Zhinxy: Yeah, that whole idea that we really want to just laze around all day and relax… I dunno about you guys, but I want to laze around all day for about four hours tops*, and after that I start getting tetchy and craving something to do.
*Except for when I’m depressed, but that’s a different issue, I think.”
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That – And you know, yeah, there’s some shit that needs to get done, be it toilet cleaning, toenail clipping, garbage disposal but the fact that we can get that over with without it becoming the focus of our existence remains.
But the whole notion of a genuinely lazy humanity is pretty much bullshit.
Molly: I personally go with the ROBOTS! solution. Because, honestly, is there anything in the average factory that couldn’t be done (with perhaps a few more decades of technological development) by robots and some repairpeople for when the robots break?
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Another thing is micromanufacture these days – YOu don’t really NEED large scale factory production if you can transmit the plans over the internet to a small local shop that can fit the parts together. And when shipping subsidies and other chicanery are factored out, the large scale centralized model, robots or not, seems a lot less competitive.
One of my ancestors founded Van Nuys California. Home of all that porn!
One of my ancestors… stole a lot of cows…
One of my ancestors was SPENCE MONROE, PRESIDENT JAMES MONROE’S BROTHER, WHO WAS NOT PRESIDENT BUT DID DO REVOLUTION STUFF AND WAS NAMED SPENCE! Not Spencer, Spence. Because he was Colonial Hip.